Keegan Cook Finberg on Harryette Mullen ("Dim Lady")
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What kind of love do we find in comparison? Keegan Cook FInberg [https://keegancfinberg.net/] joins the podcast to discuss Harryette Mullen's poem "Dim Lady [https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Mullen-Harryette/Mullen-Harryette_Dim-Lady.jpg]," which is simultaneously a love poem and a (perhaps?) loving tribute to Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 (itself a love poem and parody).  Keegan is an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is finishing a book called Poetry in General: Interdisciplinarity and U.S. Public Forms. You can find a sample of the work she's doing in that book in her article [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0950236X.2015.1064015] in Textual Practice on Frank O'Hara and the Seagram Building. And you can find samples of her new project, on poetry and surveillance, in essays she has written on Claudia Rankine [https://academic.oup.com/cww/article-abstract/15/3/326/6444343?redirectedFrom=fulltext] and Solmaz Sharif [https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/12446]. Follow Keegan on Twitter [https://twitter.com/kfinberg]. As ever, please follow, rate, and review the podcast if you're enjoying it. And share an episode with a friend! You can also subscribe to my Substack [https://kamranjavadizadeh.substack.com/], where you'll get occasional updates on the pod and my other work.
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